no. 612

"You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure."

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

no. 611

"...sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself, that's what sin is."
     "It's a lot more complicated than that-"
     "No. It aint. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried they wont like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
     "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes-"
     "But they starts with thinking about people as things..."

From Terry Pratchett's book Carpe Jugulum

no. 610

“The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.”

Eugene V. Debs

no. 609

“There is something wrong in this country; the judicial nets are so adjusted as to catch the minnows and let the whales slip through and the Federal judge is as far removed from the common people as if he inhabited another planet.”

Eugene V. Debs

no. 608

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" 

Anton Chigurh.